Word: godlessly
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Defying God, if He exists, to strike one dead, is all very well for the smalltime, itinerant atheist. But hamfisted, leather-lunged Emelyan Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut that rumbles on night and day, crunching Russian churches, chasing priests from their holes, destroying icons and uprooting holy matrimony-but not fecund wedlock...
...faithful at home may gain the same plenary indulgence. They must visit three local churches and a Cathedral picked by their Bishops, pray for "the return of all dissidents to the unity of the fold of Christ," make solemn reparation for "the injury done His Divine Majesty" by the Godless...
...Apostolic era." All religious bodies increased 416% from 1830 to 1930, while the nation's population increased only 255%. Of three groups- Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic-the Evangelical showed the greatest ratio of growth until 1880, when it yielded somewhat to the others and to "atheistic and godless movements...
There are, of course, others. There is Roger Hall, red-headed giant, able seaman; spawn, according to his rival, of smugglers and godless renegades; a man to stir the thin blood of Hope Langdon; canny even in his cups. There is Mate John Disney, widower, envious of Roger's virility, husband-to-be of Hope Langdon; a man weakened by the fringes of a Puritanical conscience. There are Jonas Dodge, Master, Zeke Nyas, Indian Quartermaster, and a dozen others. Mr. LaFarge has portayed all these swiftly and surely. But towering above them all is Jeremiah Disney, nephew of the mate...
...remote parts of the Soviet Union local peoples and tribes are not greatly molested by the Union of the Militant Godless, lest they rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...